Example sentences of "i could [verb] by the " in BNC.
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1 | I reached the desolate head of the valley ( few flowers here ) and decided to attempt a crossing to the other side of the beck so that I could return by the path descending from Black Sail Pass . |
2 | I was obliged to write essays … where I gave myself up to an almost purely artistic rendering of such facts as I remembered , and such opinions as I could concoct by the help of memory , fancy , and the radical and the free-thinking influence of home … |
3 | I could tell by the tone of her voice : Mrs F could see it too . |
4 | I could tell by the quality of her alarm , which was actressy and overdone . |
5 | I could tell by the expression on your faces when only I felt |
6 | I could tell by the you know the details |
7 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
8 | Dad moved slowly towards Mum and I could see by the look of him that he was furious . |
9 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |